Russian in Germany across Generations

俄罗斯人在德国的代代相传

• 批准号: 445288386
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Bernhard Brehmer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Saint Petersburg University
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/445288386?language=en
• 关键词: Russian; Germany; across; Generations

The project investigates language transmission and change among three different generations of speakers of Russian in Germany. The expected results of the project will contribute to our theoretical understanding about first language attrition in immigration settings and the role of quality of input for heritage language acquisition.The project pursues a comparative approach which involves two dimensions of comparison: First, we are going to compare the proficiency in Russian of representatives of three different generations of speakers of Russian in Germany: We will collect data from (i) the grandparents who immigrated as elder adults to Germany (= potential L1 attriters); (ii) parents who immigrated as adolescents to Germany and experienced a rapid change in their linguistic environment at an early point (generation 1.5 of immigrants); (iii) children who were already born in Germany (= typical heritage speakers). All three groups represent different profiles with regard to their bilingual language acquisition. The relevance of the first two groups for research on L1 attrition is obvious, but they differ with regard to their age when their linguistic environment changed dramatically due to immigration. Moreover, they both supply the input for the acquisition of Russian by the third group which opens possibilities for investigating the role of quality of input for heritage language acquisition. Second, our research will not be confined to effects of L1 attrition and quality of input with regard to isolated linguistic properties, but we will adopt a holistic approach by including properties from several linguistic levels (phonetics and phonology, prosody, inflectional morphology, morphosyntax, syntax and lexicon). This design will allow us to check (a) for the (differing) degree of vulnerability of the investigated properties considering attrition processes and language change and (b) the importance of quality of parental input on language acquisition by the subsequent generation of speakers of Russian as a minority language depending on the investigated linguistic property.The project will provide answers to the following research questions: (i) Which non-canonical features are acquired through deviant input of preceding generations and which emerge within one generation?; (ii) Are the same mechanisms (attrition or incomplete acquisition of features which are still present in preceding generations, contact-induced change, language-internal changes) at play in all three generations?; (iii) Do these mechanisms affect the same linguistic levels and, if yes, are they affected to the same degree in the three generations (also regarding the "transferability" of the resulting noncanonical features to the following generation)? Another anticipated result of the project consists in building an annotated corpus of Russian in Germany as a unique source for studying the development of Russian under contact conditions over a time span of three generations.

该项目调查了德国三代俄语使用者之间的语言传播和变化。该项目的预期结果将有助于我们对移民环境中第一语言流失的理论理解，以及输入质量对传统语言习得的作用。该项目采用了一种比较方法，涉及两个比较维度：首先，我们将比较德国三代不同俄语人士的俄语熟练程度：我们将收集以下数据：(i)作为老年人移民到德国的祖父母（=潜在的L1属性者）；（ii）父母在青少年时期移民到德国，并在早期经历了语言环境的快速变化（第1.5代移民）；（iii）已经在德国出生的孩子（=典型的传统说话者）。这三组学生在双语习得方面表现出不同的特点。前两组研究母语流失的相关性是显而易见的，但他们的年龄不同，当他们的语言环境因移民而发生巨大变化时。此外，它们都为第三组的俄语习得提供了输入，这为研究输入质量对传统语言习得的作用提供了可能性。其次，我们的研究将不局限于L1损耗和输入质量对孤立语言特性的影响，而是采用整体方法，包括几个语言层面的特性（语音和音韵学、韵律、屈折形态、形态句法、句法和词汇）。该设计将允许我们检查(a)考虑到损耗过程和语言变化的被调查属性的（不同）脆弱性程度，以及(b)父母输入的质量对下一代俄语作为少数民族语言的使用者的语言习得的重要性，这取决于所调查的语言属性。该项目将提供以下研究问题的答案：(i)哪些非规范特征是通过前几代人的异常输入获得的，哪些是在一代内出现的？所有三代人是否都有同样的机制（前几代人仍然存在的特征的磨损或不完全获得、接触引起的变化、语言内部变化）？（iii）这些机制是否影响相同的语言水平，如果是，它们在三代中是否受到相同程度的影响（也考虑到由此产生的非规范特征对下一代的“可转移性”）？该项目的另一个预期结果是在德国建立一个俄语注释语料库，作为研究三代人接触条件下俄语发展的独特来源。